Quotes from Arthur Miller

On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you

They tried to escape technology, to stay away from that and still have relationships with their fellow humans. Very difficult.

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!

Mother: What more can we be? Chris: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there's a universe of people outside and you're responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that's how he died.

If personal meaning, in this cheer leader society, lies in success, then failure must threaten identity itself.

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

HAPPY: All right, boy. I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It's the only dream you can have-- to come out number-one man.

When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister. - Rev. John Hale

It is the essence of power that it accrues to those with the ability to determine the nature of the real.

Political opposition... is given an inhumane overlay, which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized behavior. A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.

I don't know what the future is. I don't know-what I'm supposed to want.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

There are certain men in the world who rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame.

Bir inanç ortal??? kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sar?l?p kalmay?n, insan? can?ndan eden bir yasa yanl?? bir yasad?r.YaÅŸam, kad?n?m, yaÅŸam. Tanr?n?n en deÄŸerli lütfudur bize. Hiçbir ilke ne kadar yüksek, ne kadar parlak olursa olsun, kimseye can almak hakk?n? vermez.

Pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children, and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she'll wake when she tires of it. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

He's just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there's more good in him than in may other people.

What a woman! They broke the mould when they made her.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

But then, it's what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I'm lonely.